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竞选财务记录显示，这位参议院候选人接受了制药、国防和科技巨头的说客捐款
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缅因州民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳以反企业活动家的身份在全国声名鹊起，而竞选财务文件显示，他却在收受代表这些相同企业的说客和高管开出的支票。
普拉特纳将对大型科技公司、制药行业、大型银行和国防承包商的批评作为其挑战现任共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯竞选活动的核心内容。福克斯新闻数字频道查阅的联邦选举委员会和《游说披露法》记录显示，2025年8月至今年3月期间，普拉特纳从代表各种利益集团的说客以及大型公司高管那里获得了超过3万美元的捐款。
这些捐款均由说客和高管个人直接支付，而非由公司本身出资。
“我们的新广告谈到了我在竞选途中听到的最紧迫的问题之一：我们的医疗体系正在崩溃，”普拉特纳于3月24日在X平台上发帖称，他在帖子中提到了一则竞选广告，承诺如果当选参议员，将向制药行业宣战。“我们应该取缔大型制药公司，而不是关闭我们的医院。”
缅因州参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳一直以进步主义经济政策进行竞选，重点是对亿万富翁征税并降低美国工薪阶层的生活成本。（乔·雷德莱/盖蒂图片社）
曝光的联邦选举委员会记录揭露了这位脆弱的民主党参议员收受亿万富翁资金的虚伪行径
这位参议院候选人还在3月25日签署了一项承诺，保证“将患者置于利润之上”，拒绝“接受来自企业医疗行业附属的高管、说客和政治行动委员会超过200美元的捐款，包括那些试图接管我们医疗体系的私人保险公司、制药公司和私立医院”。
然而，游说记录显示，普拉特纳在此前几个月接受了基石政府事务公司一名说客的1000美元捐款，该说客当时正为大型制药公司艾伯维担任说客。在X平台发布上述帖子后不久，普拉特纳又接受了布朗斯坦律所一名说客的1000美元捐款，这名说客代表制药商诺华和莫德纳。
布朗斯坦律所的一位消息人士告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，普拉特纳的竞选团队已经退还了该说客的捐款，这似乎符合他的承诺。基石政府事务公司未回应置评请求。
普拉特纳还批评柯林斯参加了一个“实际上由大型制药公司资助”的活动，随后却参加了由医疗保健说客举办的咖啡筹款活动。
“只要追查资金来源，格雷厄姆·普拉特纳对寡头统治的虚假愤怒就会土崩瓦解，”全国共和党参议员委员会全国新闻秘书贝尔纳黛特·布雷斯林告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“他是一个空洞的候选人，其虚假的‘工薪阶层’形象在尚未站稳脚跟之前就已经崩塌了。”
普拉特纳的网络过往言论愈发低俗：发表关于“拉美妓女”、海外出轨的粗俗言论
美国参议院民主党缅因州推定提名候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳于2026年4月30日星期四在缅因州刘易斯顿举行的新闻发布会上发表讲话。（罗伯特·F·布卡蒂/美联社照片）
学术研究发现，有证据表明，向国会议员捐款可以增加与其办公室接触的机会，这表明说客捐款的动机是希望影响政策。
国防承包商是普拉特纳在竞选活动中抨击的另一个反企业目标。
在其竞选网页上，普拉特纳指责国防承包商造成“采购方面的巨大浪费”，并从事战争牟利行为。
缅因州民主党推定参议院提名候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳于2026年5月11日星期一在缅因州埃尔斯沃思举办一场能源活动。（保罗·斯坦豪斯/福克斯新闻）
全新网站揭露普拉特纳的丑闻：“一个接一个的危险信号”
“我们需要将目前用于国防承包商在弗吉尼亚州和马里兰州购置豪宅的资金，重新投入到填补巨大的造船缺口上，”他的竞选网站写道。
然而，竞选财务和游说记录显示，普拉特纳从代表RTX、波音和安杜里尔等主要国防承包商的说客那里接受了数千美元的捐款。
在银行问题上，普拉特纳指责柯林斯据称站在大型银行的利益一边，而不是其选民的利益，同时他却接受了代表瑞银、维萨和花旗集团的说客的捐款，还收受了美国银行一名高管的资金。
参议员苏珊·柯林斯抨击民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳嘲笑一名美国伤兵，两人即将在11月展开对决，普拉特纳此前被重新曝光的Reddit帖子再次引发众怒。（比尔·克拉克/CQ-罗尔公司通过盖蒂图片社；乔·雷德莱/盖蒂图片社）
普拉特纳被删除的Reddit帖子再次引发公愤，他似乎嘲笑伤兵：“不值得活在世上”
谈及科技行业，普拉特纳承诺拆分亚马逊和谷歌等大型公司，并表示将“追究”杰夫·贝佐斯的责任，确保他缴纳更多税款。尽管做出了这些承诺，普拉特纳还是接受了代表贝佐斯创立的太空技术公司蓝色起源的说客的捐款，以及一些为亚马逊、谷歌和Salesforce工作的说客的捐款。
向普拉特纳捐款的银行、科技、制药和国防说客均受雇于第三方游说公司，这些公司与大型企业签订合同，代表它们在华盛顿的利益。例如，谷歌无法控制第三方说客使用个人资金决定向哪些政治候选人捐款。
同样，大型企业也无法控制其高管决定向哪些候选人捐款。
除了收受普通说客的捐款外，普拉特纳还接受了多家游说公司的高管和合伙人的捐款。
例如，福布斯·泰特律所的一名合伙人在3月底向普拉特纳捐款1000美元。福布斯·泰特的客户包括AMD、安进、阿斯利康、黑石、礼来公司、通用原子公司和美国制药业协会——所有这些都属于普拉特纳一直批评的行业。
他还从先锋公共事务公司的高级管理层那里获得了2350美元，该公司代表科技公司LG和一些能源利益集团，还从索尼集团的高管那里获得了数千美元的捐款。
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尽管柯林斯得到了企业说客、政治行动委员会和高管的大量支持，但她并不像普拉特纳那样坚定地批评企业。目前的竞选财务记录仅涵盖到3月份，这意味着普拉特纳从说客和高管那里接受的捐款可能比公开文件显示的还要多。
福克斯新闻数字频道联系普拉特纳的竞选团队置评，但未得到回应。
Platner’s anti-corporate crusade hits awkward snag as receipts tell another story
2026-06-04T06:00:01-04:00 / Fox News
Campaign finance records show the Senate hopeful accepted donations from lobbyists for pharma, defense and tech giants
By Robert Schmad Fox News
Published June 4, 2026 6:00am EDT
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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner built a national reputation as an anti-corporate crusader while cashing checks written by lobbyists and executives representing those same corporations, campaign finance documents show.
Platner has made criticism of big tech, the pharmaceutical industry, large banks and defense contractors a cornerstone of his campaign to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Federal Election Commission and Lobbying Disclosure Act records reviewed by Fox News Digital show that Platner accepted more than $30,000 from lobbyists representing a range of interests and executives at major companies between August 2025 and March of this year.
The donations were made personally by lobbyists and executives, not by the corporations themselves.
“Our new ad speaks to one of the most urgent issues I hear on the campaign trail: our healthcare system is collapsing,” Platner posted to X on March 24, referencing a campaign ad where he promised to take on the drug industry if elected to the Senate. “We should shut down Big Pharma, not our hospitals.”
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has campaigned on progressive economic policies focused on taxing billionaires and lowering costs for working-class Americans.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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The Senate hopeful also signed a pledge on March 25 promising to “to put patients over profits” by refusing “contributions over $200 from the executives, lobbyists, and PACs affiliated with the corporate health care industry, including private insurers, pharma corporations, and private hospitals who are organizing to take over our health care system.”
Platner, however, months earlier, accepted a $1,000 donation from a lobbyist at Cornerstone Government Affairs who was working as a lobbyist for AbbVie, a major pharmaceutical company, lobbying records show. Shortly after making his post on X, Platner accepted another $1,000 from a lobbyist at Brownstein who represents the drugmakers Novartis and Moderna.
A source at Brownstein told Fox News Digital that Platner’s campaign returned their lobbyist’s donation, seemingly consistent with his pledge. Cornerstone Government Affairs did not respond to a request for comment.
Platner also criticized Collins for attending an event that was “literally funded by Big Pharma,” only to then attend a coffee fundraising event put on by healthcare lobbyists.
“Graham Platner’s faux rage against the oligarchy falls apart the second you follow the money,” National Republican Senatorial Committee national press secretary Bernadette Breslin told Fox News Digital. “He’s a shell of a candidate whose phony ‘working-class’ rebrand collapsed before it even got off the ground.”
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Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at a news conference Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Lewiston, Maine.(Robert F. Bukaty/AP PHoto)
Academic research has found evidence that contributions to a member of Congress increase access to their office, suggesting that lobbyist donations are motivated by a desire to shape policy.
Defense contractors have been another target of Platner’s anti-corporate ire on the campaign trail.
On his campaign page, Platner accuses defense contractors of perpetuating “massive waste in procurement” and engaging in war profiteering.
Graham Platner, the Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine, holds an energy event in Ellsworth, Maine on Monday May 11, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
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“We need to take the funds currently paying for mansions in Virginia and Maryland for defense contractors, and reinvest them into closing the massive shipbuilding gap,” his campaign website reads.
Campaign finance and lobbying records, however, show that Platner has accepted thousands of dollars from lobbyists representing major defense contractors such as RTX, Boeing and Anduril.
On banks, Platner has chided Collins for allegedly siding with the interests of big banks over her constituents, while accepting donations from lobbyists representing UBS, Visa and Citigroup and taking cash from a Bank of America executive.
Sen. Susan Collins blasts Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s mocking of a U.S. wounded soldier as the two are headed toward a likely November showdown as resurfaced Reddit posts continue to resurface from Platner.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Speaking about tech, Platner has pledged to break up large firms like Amazon and Google and stated that we will “come after” Jeff Bezos to make sure he pays more taxes. Despite these assurances, Platner has accepted contributions from lobbyists representing Blue Origin, a space technology company founded by Bezos, as well as some working for Amazon, Google and Salesforce.
The banking, tech, pharmaceutical and defense lobbyists who donated to Platner all work for third-party lobbying firms that contract with major corporations to represent their interests in Washington. Google, for example, has no control over who third-party lobbyists decide to make political donations to using their personal funds.
Large corporations, similarly, have no control over who their executives decide to send funds to.
In addition to taking cash from rank-and-file lobbyists, Platner has also accepted donations from executives and partners and multiple lobbying firms.
A partner at Forbes Tate, for example, gave Platner $1,000 at the end of March. Forbes Tate represents clients such as AMD, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Blackstone, Eli Lilly and Co., General Atomics and PhRMA — all of which belong to industries Platner has been critical of.
He also took $2,350 from senior leadership at Pioneer Public Affairs, a firm that represents the tech company LG and some energy interests, as well as thousands more from executives at the Sony Group Corporation.
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While Collins receives considerable support from corporate lobbyists, PACs and executives, she hasn’t been a staunch critic of corporations like Platner. Current campaign finance records only cover up until March, making it likely that Platner has accepted even more money from lobbyists and executives than public documents reveal.
The Platner campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
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